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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Five paying markets for short prose, poetry, and essays, plus two writing contests

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Confrontationmagazine publishes short fiction (up to 7,200
words) and flash fiction (up to 500 words), poetry, and nonfiction (essays and
memoir) . Pays $175–$250 for prose, $75–$100 per work for poetry

Deadline: April 15,
2017.

Also, the Confrontation magazine 2017 Poetry Prize is open to submission. $10
entry fee includes a submission to the magazine (which is normally $24). Prize:
$750. The winner will be prominently published in the magazine. All entries
will be considered for publication. Deadline:
April 30.

The Quilliadis an
independent literary and arts publication based in Toronto.Publishes emerging and established writers and welcomes
submissions from all Canadians.

The spring/May issue is open to general
literature (no genre fiction or poetry), while the fall/Halloween issue is open
to apocalyptic fiction, retold fairy tales, horror, and science fiction as
well. Wants poetry flash fiction (500 words or less), short stories (1,000 – 2,000
words). Also accepts some visual art, photography, and comic art. Pays $13.

For the May 2017 issue,
submit February – April; for the October 2017 issue, submit July – September.
Guidelines here.

Dear literary comrade,

We’d be
grateful if you can help spread the word to your writerly members and friends
aboutsubTerrainmagazine’s awards opportunity: our 15thannualLush
Triumphant Literary Awardscontest.

The
competition boasts 3 Categories – Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry –
and $3,000 CAN in total cash prizes.

The winners
will be published in the winter 2017 issue ofsubTerrain;
runners-up will be published in the spring 2018 issue.

Note: subTerrain is also
seeking submissions for its summer issue. This issue will be devoted almost entirely to interviews with (mostly)
Canadian writers and thinkers, covering a wide range of topics from writing,
the economy, politics, the future, migration, borders in an increasingly “borderless”
world, and wherever the conversations take us. Pays $50 per poem and $50 per page for prose.

Deadline May 1, 2017. Guidelines for the summer (and also the fall and spring
issues)here.

Bennington Reviewis published twice a year in print form,
Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. Submissions are read from August 15 to May 15 of
every year. The review aims “to stake out a distinctive space for innovative,
intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and
cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should
be ‘making birds, not birdcages,’ we are particularly taken with writing that
is simultaneously graceful and reckless.

Navigating tip: For more paying markets, go to theLabelsfor this posting listed below and
click on Paying Markets, or Best Paying Markets. In the list of Labels, you’ll
also find a links to various other collections of postings.

Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.